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NATO jet shoots down drone over Romania as Russian strikes on Ukraine kill one

Sunday, 16 August 2026, 06:16 · 1 min read

A Spanish F-18 fighter jet on a NATO air policing mission shot down a drone that illegally entered Romanian airspace, Romania's Defence Ministry announced on Sunday — the fourth such incident this year. The ministry did not specify the drone's origin, though Romania (a NATO member sharing a 634km border with Ukraine) has previously attributed similar intrusions to Russia, whose escalating bombing campaign has repeatedly sent stray drones across the frontier. Separately, Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least one woman and wounded seven others in Ukraine, with attacks hitting Kryvyi Rig — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown — and the capital Kyiv, where one person was injured and fires broke out in residential districts.

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Al Jazeera EnglishRussian strikes kill Ukrainian woman as NATO jet downs drone over Romania ↗︎
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